Zambia Environmental Management Agency

Development of NIPs for POPs in Zambia

By David Kapindula

Inception Workshop held at Radisson Blu Hotel, Lusaka 6, August 2013

INTRODUCTION

• The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from chemicals that remain intact in the environment for long periods, become widely distributed geographically, accumulate in the fatty tissue of humans and wildlife, and have adverse effects to human health and the environment.

INTRODUCTION

• Zambia became a signatory to the Stockholm Convention May 2001

• Zambia developed her NIPs from 2002 - 2006• Zambia transmitted NIPs to the SC Secretariat

at COP 4 in May 2009• Zambia became Party on October 5, 2006 by

submitting the instruments of ratification in July of 2006

NIPs DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIADevelopment of the NIP in Zambia involved the following five

phases:

• Phase I – Establishment of Coordinating Mechanism and Process Organisation

• Phase II- Establishment of POPs Inventories and Assessment of National Infrastructure and Capacity

• Phase III- Priority Assessment and Objective Setting • Phase IV- Formulation of National Implementation

Plan • Phase V- NIP Endorsement and Submission

NIPs DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIAPHASE I: ESTABLISHMENT OF COORDINATING MECHANISM AND PROCESS

ORGANISATION

The initial processes in Zambia included the following steps (i) MOU signing in July 2002

(ii) Setting up of the National Coordinator’s Office at ECZ in Aug 2002

(iii) Holding of the national workshop at which the NCC and the Four Thematic Groups were formed. These were Dioxins & Furans, DDT, PCBs and POPs Pesticides.

In August 2002 secretariat produced the Project Plan and initial information dissemination was made to stakeholders and the public on POPs

By the end of September 2002 the Four Thematic Groups had started technical meetings. There were on average one meeting per month.

NIPs DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIAPHASE II: ESTABLISHMENT OF POPS INVENTORIES AND

ASSESSMENT OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPACITY

Work plan developed for National wide inventory (All Nine Provinces). This was done in last quarter of 2003 and additional data collection in September/October 2004

Following data gathering was the development of the National POPs Inventory ( PCBs, DDT, Dioxins & Furans, and POPs Pesticides).

Creation of National POPs Database Assessment of POPs in Zambia and POPs Assessment Reports were produced

NIPs DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIAPHASE III: PRIORITY ASSESSMENT AND OBJECTIVE SETTINGKey activity was the review of national status based on

inventory ( including national Legal framework) Four Consultants were hired to do an Analysis of Existing

Data on Human Health, Socio-economic and the Environment

Three workshops were held to undertake a Priority Assessment and setting of objectives ( for DDT, PCBs, POPs Pesticides and Dioxins & Furans, Monitoring, Legal and Institutional framework, Contaminated Sites and Public Awareness)

At the end a National Priority Assessment and Objective Setting Report was produced

NIPs DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIAPHASE IV: FORMULATION OF NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN Following the Priority assessment and Objective Setting, the

Subcommittees embarked on the action plans development for the NIP

The National Action Plans Development focused on;(i) POPs Pesticides(ii) DDT,(iii) PCBs,(iv) Dioxins and Furans,(v) Stocks piles,(vi) Public Awareness(v) Monitoring

NIPs DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIA

PHASE V: NIPs ENDORSEMENT AND SUBMISSION

NIP Drafting and ProductionNational Coordinating Committee

EndorsementNational High Level EndorsementSubmit to Secretariat

LESSONS LEARNED

Multi Stakeholder Approach was very useful Enhanced information gathering fostered networking

Time demandingHarmonizing divergent viewsCreated awareness among stakeholders on POPs at

various levelsGuidance materials came late while the project was in

progressCapacity was built at local level e.g. PCBs testing

CURRENT STATUS

Some projects on POPs implemented with funding from Finland and UNEP

Disposal of PCBs by the minesCapacity building for POPsEffectiveness evaluation – background levels of

POPs monitoringNo preliminary studies have been undertaken

nationally to determine presence of new POPsNo strategy yet developed on new POPs

END

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